4Talent award winner Luke Wright might just be the hardest working man in poetry: he’s a prolific producer of new work, the curator of one the country’s largest poetry events and a regular on radio and TV.
He has six solo poetry stage shows: Poet Laureate, Poet & Man, A Poet’s Work Is Never Done, The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright and Cynical Ballads. All of which played to sold out audiences at The Edinburgh Fringe, got five star reviews and have completed extensive national tours. His new one is Your New Favourite Poet, it tours throughout 2012 & 2013.
Luke’s debut poetry collection is Mondeo Man (Penned in the Margins, 2013). He was shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award in 2011.
He has also started writing poetry for films. In 2009 he took contemporary poetry onto primetime TV, writing all the poetry for Channel 4’s The Seven Ages of Love, a 30 minute documentary that gained ‘pick of the day’ in 8 national publications and was broadcast to over a million people, it was later nominated for a prestigious Grierson Award. In 2010 he wrote and provided the voice-over for a 30 minute film on Channel 4 called The Bed, directed by Toby Paton.
His first book, Who Writes This Crap?, co-written with Joel Stickley, was published by Penguin in 2007. A live show based on the book enjoyed a sell-out run at Edinburgh 2008. Joel and Luke have also written verse for an animated shorted directed by Jon Dunleavy, – Crash! Bang! Wallow!, the story of a suicidal stuntman, won the NFBC short film competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Audio-wise his poems are often on the radio, generally BBC Radios 3 & 4, sometimes further afield. He is a regular contributor to the Sony Award-winning Saturday Live. All of his commissioned work can be heard on his podcast, which RSSes from his Soundcloud.
Luke hosts and co-programmes all the poetry for The Latitude Poetry Arena, one of the biggest and most popular poetry events in Europe, with over 60 poets performing for 40 hours.
Luke is the founder of poetry collective Aisle16. They used to make touring theatre shows, such as 2005′s Time Out Critics’ Choice of the Year Poetry Boyband. These days they still produce a huge amount of new work but it’s all for their scratch night HOMEWORK, which runs six months of the year in Bethnal Green.
“The best young performance poet around.” The Observer
“Timely, patriotic, touching and consistently funny, this outstanding show marries form and content in a way that defies superlative and leaves a choking gap within you when it finishes.” * * * * * The Scotsman (on Cynical Ballads)
“One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation.” Johann Hari, The Independent
“Visceral, poignant and riotously funny.” The Scotsman
“Performance poetry’s key revivalist.” Metro
“He must be on some kind of dope.” John Cooper Clarke
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